A Technology and Engineering Emmy Award is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for outstanding achievement in technical or engineering development. An award can be presented to an individual, a company, or to a scientific or technical organization for developments and/or standardization involved in engineering technologies which either represent so extensive an improvement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected the transmission, recording, or reception of television.

The Emmy Awards for Development… of interactive Video on Demand infrastructure and signaling, leading to large scale VOD implementations:* Time Warner Cable* Scientific Atlanta* N2 Broadband (Tandberg Television)

The Emmy Award for Coaxial cable technology:* AT&T

The Emmy Award for Pioneering development of a fully monitored fiber optic based digital network… at shared use sports venues:* Vyvx Services

The Emmy Award for Development and implementation of an integrated and portable IP-based live, edit and store-and-forward digital newsgathering system:* CNN

The Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of Commercial Advertising on Personal Computer:* The L Word in Second Life, Showtime Networks/Electric Sheep Company

The Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use for Creation and Distribution of Interactive Commercial Advertising Delivered Through Digital Set Top Boxes:* Axe Boost Your E.S.P. Interactive Channel Experience, Brightline iTV/Unilever

The Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content for Interactive Use (Two Screen Environment TV /PC or TV / Mobile Device):* March Madness on Demand, CBSSports.com/CBS Sports

The Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of "On Demand" (Consumer Scheduled or Programmed) Technology Over Broadband Networks for Active "lean-forward" Viewing:* MLB Mosaic, Ensequence/MLB.TV

The Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Best Use of "On Demand" for Passive "lean-backward" Viewing:* Switched Digital Video: Revolutionizing TV, Time Warner Cable/BigBand Networks

Following are the winners for Engineering & Technology for Creation and Implementation of Video Games and Platforms:

*TM Systems, For the development of the QC Station, a lightweight, quality control PC software that dramatically improves the traditional workflow of a dubbing and/or subtitling project.

2006 presentations

*RCA-TTE, For Pioneering Development of On Screen Display (OSD) for Setup, Control and Configuration of Consumer Television Equipment*Microsoft, Adobe Systems, RealNetworks, and Apple Computer, Inc., For Streaming Media Architectures and Components*Terayon Communication Systems, Inc., For pioneering Development for Combining Multiple ransport Streams Which Are Already Encoded, Using Rate-Shaping and Statistical Re-multiplexing*Visible World and The Weather Channel, For Development and Implementation of automatically Assembled Dynamic Customized TV Advertising*Gennum Corp., For Technology Advances in Serial Digital Interface Solutions, enabling Over 20 Years of Seamless Studio and Broadcast Infrastructure migration.* [http://www.the-n.com/ The-N.com] (a website associated with The N television channel) for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Non-Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Programming, for the [http://www.the-n.com/theclick/masher/ Video Masher] .

2005 presentations

*Ampex and ABC, For slow-motion color recording and playback for broadcast*ABC, PBS, and Consumer Electronics Association, For closed caption standardization*The WB and IBM, For pioneering development of locally integrated and branded content using IP Store and forward technology*Canon USA Inc., Fujinon, and Thales Angeniux, For lens technology developments for solid state imagers cameras in high definition formats*AT&T For the first intercontinental satellite TV transmission.

2004 presentations

*Sharp, Development of Direct View Liquid Crystal Display Screens*Philips, Development of UHP Lamps*Len Reiffel, Pioneering efforts in the invention of the Telestrator*Echostar and DirecTV Pioneering Efforts in the Development of Spot Beam Satellites for Distribution of Local Broadcast Channels Directly to Home Receivers:*NCube, Concurrent, and SeaChange, Development, productization, and commercialization of video server technology leading to large scale VOD implementations:

*Plasma display by Donald Bitzer. This revolutionized the television.*Final Cut Pro by Apple Inc. A one application, any format editing system.*Boujou Automated Camera Tracker by 2d3 Ltd. This innovation provides automatic shot tracking in a fraction of the usual time.*Arriflex Cameras by ARRI Inc. A Lifetime Achievement Award goes to this organization for fifty years of technological contributions to the industry.*TM Systems, for their language translation, dubbing and subtitling system. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117873084.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 Dubbing biz goes modern] &mdash; "Variety" magazine, 22 September 2002.] *Proximity Corporation for software for managing graphical assets for broadcast.

1997 presentations

* [http://www.jlfisher.com/ J.L. Fisher] , for development of camera dollies.*Panasonic, for development of the AJ-LT75 DVCPRO "Laptop" editor.*Seven organizations known as the Grand Alliance, which are primarily responsible for developing and standardizing the transmission and technology for digital TV. The companies are General Instrument, AT&T, David Sarnoff Research Center, Thomson/RCA, Philips, Zenith and M.I.T.. [ [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1116679165.html?categoryid=14&cs=1 Engineering Emmys awarded] &mdash; "Variety" magazine, 20 June 1997.]

1960 Presentation

Radio Corporation of America, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and English Electric Valve Company for the independent development of the 4 1/2 inch image orthicon tube and camera.

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